Volume 5 Chapter 10 Raid on corrupt officials

After the great chaos, there will be great governance, and after the great governance, there will be great prosperity, which is the law of the development of the country in all dynasties, and the same is true in the localities.

Guangdong has been in chaos for nearly a hundred years since the Jiajing Dynasty because of the high mountain emperor, and after Zhang Bin came, it was even more chaotic to the peak, and the local officials actually colluded with the bandits to attack the Dusi Yamen, wanting to kill him, the governor of Fuguang!

As a result, unfortunately, he was killed by him.

After the chaos, there will be great governance, these corrupt officials and local tyrants and squires really dare to collude with thieves to kill him, Zhang Bin is really angry.

The corrupt officials and local tyrants and squires in Guangdong also knew that all the forces that could be dispatched near Guangzhou City, and they also invited the elite bandits from Yong'an, but they did not kill the governor, and this time I am afraid that there will be big trouble.

In the early morning of the same day, before dawn, the city defense of Guangzhou was taken over by the Qi family army that suddenly did not know from there, and then there was a crackling sound of flesh and a terrible scream from the Yamen of the Dusi Division, which lasted for a long time and slowly disappeared until noon.

What will happen to the governor, the corrupt officials and local tyrants and squires can only hope that the commanders of the guards and thousands and hundreds of households will carry it, and they will not recruit anything.

It's a pity, after all, people are not beaten with iron, and the thigh-thick board beckons to the buttocks, and if you carry it dozens of times, you will die, and you will make all of it.

If you don't recruit it, you can't do it, the Governor is too ruthless, if you don't recruit a board, if you don't recruit a board, if you don't recruit enough, it's still a board, it's just a board without blinking, in short, if the things you recruit can't satisfy the Governor, you will be beaten to death!

Who dares not to recruit, who dares to conceal!

The dream is beautiful, the reality is cruel, the dream of corrupt officials and local tyrants and squires who got away with it did not come true, and the next day, a great purge began.

The Governor didn't know where so many men and horses came from, and the next morning, more than 300 wheels and boats sent tens of thousands of people, and as soon as they came ashore, they took over the city defense of Guangzhou and the camp of the guards outside the city, and then, the Qi army began to arrest people.

The officials inside the Yamen, from the left and right political envoys, to the left and right political envoys, to the experience, and everything else, were all arrested, and the entire Yamen was left with only a few miscellaneous products.

This time, it was not just the end of arresting people, their residences, including the mansions they had purchased in the city, were all copied from the bottom to the bottom, and truckloads of gold, silver, and jewelry boxes were sent to the Dusi Yamen in an endless stream, and I don't know how many copies were copied out.

The yamen of the prefect of Guangzhou was also enclosed, and the officials inside, from the prefect and the same knowledge to the general judgment and the promotion of officials, were all arrested, and there were only some miscellaneous products left in the entire yamen.

Immediately afterwards, their dwellings, including the mansions they had purchased in the city, were also copied from the bottom to the sky, and truckloads of gold, silver, and jewels were sent to the Dusi Yamen in an endless stream.

According to the prison sentence, the residences of those officials in the Yamen of the Prosecutor did not want to be spared, and they were also copied from the bottom to the sky, and the stolen goods were also sent to the Yamen of the Metropolitan Division one by one.

The city of Guangzhou alone has been vigorously engaged in for two days, and the provincial government yamen and the prefect's yamen have basically been emptied by the governor, and this is going to be a problem, is it that everything is not done, and the yamen don't care, just let them stop there and wait for the court to send someone to take over?

How long do you have to wait, take the land route, detour to Guangxi, come from the capital, even if you take a carriage, it will take two or three months, two or three months no one will take care of things, it is quite terrifying, it is estimated that Guangdong will be more chaotic than before the rectification!

Of course, Zhang Bin would not make this kind of mistake, on the third day, the political envoy Si Yamen, the punishment according to the procuratorate Si Yamen, the prefect Yamen, the major yamen were still raiding the house, and another huge fleet came to the Tianzi Wharf of Guangzhou Port.

This time, there are not only wheels, but also fortune boats, Haicang ships, Cangshan ships, and even centipede ships, mother ships, etc., there are more than 500 large and small ships, tens of thousands of foot soldiers, and a bunch of officials.

Zhang Bin had already made preparations, and before he started to arrest here, Fujian began to mobilize officials.

Transferred to the former Fujian Cheng announced the political envoy to the right political envoy Cai Shanji temporarily acting as the political envoy of Guangdong Cheng announced the political envoy to the left of the political envoy;

Zou Weilian, the former Fujian Sentencing Envoy and Probationary Envoy, temporarily acted as the political envoy of Guangdong Chengxuan and the right political envoy of the Provincial Envoy Division, and was also in charge of the Guangdong Sentencing and Procuratorial Envoy Division;

Transferred to the original Quanzhou Patrol Sea Dao Wang Zheng temporarily acting as the prefect of Guangzhou, etc., each yamen was equipped with a set of temporary teams.

Of course, the officials are not fully equipped, so they can only let these yamen operate temporarily, but all the cronies he can promote have been promoted.

He also wants to tell Chongzhen, I don't want to appoint cronies, there can't be no one to take care of the yamen here, I can only make do with letting people go up first, as for how to arrange it later, your emperor, you have the final say, but it won't take down all the people on top of me!

The cleaning and rectification of the major yamen in Guangzhou City is now over, and the rectification of other places will begin immediately.

The second batch of people who came over were not only civil officials and foot soldiers, but also a large number of thousands and hundreds of households in the East Fan Jiuwei, because Zhang Bin's second step was to target all the guards and thousands of households in the Guangdong Metropolitan Division.

The reason why these local officials and local tyrants and squires dare to be so rampant is because the guards and thousands of households in the Guangdong capital are corrupted, and they collude with each other, have power, and have soldiers, so they can run rampant and lawless.

Zhang Bin's second step was to seize their military power, and the thousand households transferred from the Dongfan Nine Guards were to take over the command of the eleven guards, and the hundred households were to take over the thousands of households in each of them.

Zhang Bin has nothing to fear, he uses all his own people, all the original 100 households of the Dajin Institute are 1,000 households at this time, Zhang Bin boldly raised them to another level, and directly let them all serve as commanders, as well as the thousands of households in Guangdong, basically the general flag of the original Dajin Institute.

He was also vigorous and resolute in the rectification of the various guard posts and the thousand households, and each guard directly sent a thousand households with a thousand soldiers to take over, and each thousand households directly sent a hundred households with a hundred soldiers to take over.

In other words, within one day, all the 11 health centers and 13 thousand households in Guangdong were taken over, and they didn't even have time to react.

As for whether the original commanders and Qianhu will obediently hand over the military power, he is not worried at all, although the combat training time of the Dongfan Jiuwei is not long, but they have been practicing, and they are not known to be many times stronger than the guards of the Guangdong Guards and the Thousand Households who are negligent in training, besides, their weapons are also much stronger than these guards and Qianhu, if they dare not hand over the military power, they will come directly to the hard, and if they don't accept it, they will fight until you obey!

The takeover was relatively smooth, after all, it was only the commanders, thousands of households, and hundreds of households who made money from the guards and thousands of households, and the guards below not only did not make money, but they were also the objects of oppression, so they naturally would not help these officials against the thousands of households and hundreds of households who came to take over.

On the fifth day, 11 health centers and 13 1,000 households in Guangdong, and the original commanders, envoys, 1,000 households, and 100 households were taken to Guangzhou City one after another, and the gold and silver treasures they had obtained through corruption were also transported over one by one, and the cells of the Dusi Yamen were to be full, and the treasury was rarely full.

At this time, Zhang Bin finally stopped, because the remaining local officials, squires, local tyrants and bandits were quite scattered, and a large number of people had to be arranged to rectify and eliminate everywhere, besides, after arresting so many officials and copying so many gold and silver treasures, it was time to report to Chongzhen.

In the past few days, Zhang Bin's guards have really counted the money and counted the cramps, because there are too many gold and silver treasures stolen!

At this time, Guangdong's wealth is reflected, these corrupt officials and corrupt officials, pay the imperial court taxes, they can pick and choose, can be exempted, they make their own money, that is as much as they can get.

In Guangdong Province, the tax paid to the imperial court in a year is only four or five hundred thousand taels, but less than half of these corrupt officials have been caught, and the gold and silver treasures copied can scare individuals to death.

The officials in the major yamen in Guangzhou City are quite greedy, because they are all rogue officials, they collect some filial piety every year, fight sloppiness, and mix up their tenure even if it is over, so they don't make a lot of money, even if it is Wen Gaomo, Di Cunxing, Zhang Jiuxian, these second-grade and third-grade high-ranking officials are only tens of thousands of taels, and there are even fewer officials below.

The commanders of those guards and thousands of households and thousands of households are terrible, they basically will not be transferred away, the term of office is at least more than ten years, some even stay in a guard or a thousand households for the rest of their lives, and more importantly, they still have soldiers in their hands, these people are terrible when they are corrupt.

There are too many ways for them to make money, such as falsely reporting the number of tun guards and encroaching on tuntian for profit; Another example is to act as a protective umbrella for local tyrants and squires to oppress the common people; There is also the filial piety of bandits from all over the country, as well as the income from their own smuggling and business, etc., which add up to quite an astonishing amount.

For each thousand households, the minimum copied out is 100,000 taels, and the copied out of each guard is hundreds of thousands of taels!

According to the last statistics, more than 5 million taels of silver alone were copied, more than 30,000 taels of gold were copied, and other jewelry and jade were copied from several account books.

At this time, Zhang Bin has to consider the issue of sharing again, it is definitely impossible to hand over all these gold and silver treasures, Chongzhen seems to rely on him at this time, whether it is to suppress pirates or fight against Hongmaofan, Chongzhen has nothing to do, and he does not give any military expenses, as if he forgot that he still needs military expenses to fight a war!

Of course, Chongzhen knew quite well in his heart that it was impossible to fight without money, but he had no money, he couldn't afford the military expenses in Liaodong alone, and in other places, it was not possible to save it.

He also knew that Zhang Bin had a way to make money, so he turned a blind eye to it, whatever you wanted, in short, don't ask me for military expenses, just win the war!

Such a request, if you change the governor or governor, you have to cry to death, but Zhang Bin is like a fish in water, as long as you Chongzhen does not interfere, I not only don't want you to pay for the war, but also send you money!

No, he began to think about sending money again, how much to send?

In fact, there is a standard for this, of course, it is not that the laws of the Ming Dynasty have provisions, but that Zhang Bin has slowly formed a standard in his mind based on the experience of fighting wars and governing places in the past few years.

His criterion is that I am not greedy for this money, but the money needed for the military expenditure and the development of the local economy must be cut out.

So, how much will it cost this time?

First of all, the military expenses for the war, he came over to clean up the pirate Liu Xiang, but there were a lot of bandits, and these must be exterminated together.

In terms of bandits, just Xie Zhenggang took people to investigate it, and there were no less than 20,000 bandits in Yong'an, Zhang Bin estimated that there were at least about 30,000 bandits, although their combat effectiveness was not very good, but they were scattered, and they must send more people, and the preliminary estimate was 20,000.

In terms of water bandits, there are also incomplete statistics, about 10,000, and it is not very difficult for the water division to deal with them, and 5,000 people are enough.

There are also the Women's Gang and the Crazy Gang, their numbers are not many, but they are too scattered, and it is estimated that there are about 5,000 people.

There is also the pirate Liu Xiang, this guy is like taking medicine, and his development is particularly rapid, at this time there are at least 300 large and small warships, more than 20,000 horses, to exterminate them, at least 500 large and small warships, 30,000 horses.

In this way, it is almost 60,000 horses, not to mention how these people and horses came, the military expenses have to be prepared first, Zhang Bin is too lazy to calculate carefully, almost, according to five taels per person, 60,000 horses is 300,000 taels a month, and 3.6 million taels a year.

Then there is the development of the local economy, the road on the Guangdong side Zhang Bin has roughly understood that it is similar to the original Fujian side, and it has to be expanded and repaired, and he also wants to build the land road between Fujian and Guangdong into a thoroughfare, that is, the mountain road will be widened, flattened, and straightened, so that it will not be possible to come down without 500,000 taels.

In fact, this does not cost much, if you use the tunwei to build, you should practice it, just manage the food, and it is enough to count 500,000 taels.

In this way, it all adds up to 4.6 million taels, and the total amount of silver confiscated this time is only more than 5 million taels, what should I do, do I only send hundreds of thousands of taels to Chongzhen, this seems to be a bit too petty.

In fact, there is another way, that is, to use gold to offset it, the reason why Zhang Bin didn't ask for gold in the past is mainly because he didn't know that gold was so popular in the exchange system of maritime trade, and he made such a big profit.

In the Ming Dynasty, one tael of gold can be exchanged for fifty or sixty taels of silver, and it can be exchanged for more than one hundred taels in Dongying, Manila and even Batavia, and gold is much easier to use than silver.

Therefore, he is ready to deduct 20,000 taels of gold to offset 1 million taels of silver, so that he can hand over more than 1 million taels of silver to Chongzhen, more than 10,000 taels of gold, as for jewelry and jade, all of them have been handed over, and the books look good, and there are several account books.

After some careful calculation, Zhang Bin began to write a recital, he did not mention anything about the commander of the guard post leading the troops to attack the Dusi Yamen or anything, nor did he mention the problem of bandits, because he didn't want to make things too big, and he didn't want Chongzhen to have other ideas.

After all, before he came to Guangdong, Guangdong was calm, why did he come, this is a rebellion, and a bandit, this is not extremely abnormal, he doesn't want Chongzhen to think that he is extremely abnormal, so, he didn't mention anything else, he mentioned a corruption, the gold and silver treasures handed over are physical evidence, and it is enough to get rid of these officials,

Of course, so much gold and silver treasures can't be handed over in vain, every time he hands over gold and silver treasures, he basically asks Chongzhen for officials, or to put it bluntly, he is buying officials from Chongzhen, of course, this time is no exception, don't lose it.

He thought about it for a while, and directly wrote a sentence at the end of the recital, asking him to transfer the former Ministry of Officials Jixun Shilang Zhongsun Chuanting to serve as the Guangdong Provincial Punishment Envoy.